(July 18, 2018 at 8:29 am)JairCrawford Wrote:(July 18, 2018 at 12:59 am)Minimalist Wrote: Yeah.... so some of you guys say. Of course, the earliest copies we have are from the late 2d-3d centuries and the earliest xtian writers we know of never heard of them. Maybe they were testing your fucking faith, huh?
Nonetheless, no one heard of any of them until the late 2d century.
Now, Justin, writing c 160 speaks of something called the Memoirs of the Apostles.... except what he writes does not match up to any of the nonsense we have today. So, either no one had finished editing them or the stories were not fully fleshed out or Justin was a complete asshole. Tell me which you prefer.
There's another possibility that they simply weren't that widely in circulation yet.
We have no indication that they were circulated at all until much later on. Remember, there was no "church," per se. The evidence suggests scattered groups with widely varying tales on this "christ" character. (No one outside of xtian circles ever heard of any "jesus" before the late 2d century, and curiously when Pliny tortured xtians they told him about Christ - not Jesus. Pliny died in 112 AD so we can be certain as late as 112 that jesus had not been invented.)
